"When you draw something it lives and when……" — John Fowles
"When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies"
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140 Quotes by John Fowles
John Fowles has 140 quotes on this site.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It…
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and…
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
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On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach…
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Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile:…
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing…
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery…
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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More Dies Quotes
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
— Jane Austen
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
— Dan Aykroyd
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
— Dave Barry
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are…
— Annie Besant
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
— Jim Bishop
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Love dies only when growth stops.
— Pearl S. Buck
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